Tuesday, 23 April 2019

Spanish Film Festival (4) - Barrie Pattison is underwhelmed by the domestic hit CHAMPIONS (Javier Fesser)

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Javier Fesser’s  Campeones/ Champions  is a massive hit in Spain. It opened the Spanish Film Festival here and the audience I saw it with g...
Monday, 22 April 2019

CINEMA REBORN - Short notes and links (7) - WANDA (Barbara Loden, USA, 1970)

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Barbara Loden’s (left) only feature-length directorial achievement is a stark portrait of a working-class woman (played by Loden herself)...

Spanish Film Festival (3) - Barrie Pattison highly recommends LA QUIETUD (Pablo Trapero, Argentina)

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Pablo Trapero is one of those people that the festival circuit picked up in his early days and then dropped. Think Italians like Gabriele S...

CINEMA REBORN - Short notes and links (6) - SONS OF MATTHEW (Charles Chauvel, Australia, 1949)

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A tale of rugged pioneer days,  Sons of Matthew  Charles Chauvel gave the lead role to the young Michael Pate and, as with the earlier Ch...
Sunday, 21 April 2019

Adam Bowen's TALKIE TALK #56 - New Movies, Bernard Hermann's Movie Music and classics on TV by Reed, Huston, Kubrick, Hitchcock and more

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NEW IN CINEMAS THIS WEEK Celeste  (2018) Aussie movie, directed by Ben Hackworth. Rhada Mitchell is Celeste, an opera diva, who retir...

Streaming on Netflix - Rod Bishop admires WILD WILD COUNTRY (Chapman Way, Maclain Way, USA, 2018) ...and extra added response from David Hare

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Editor's Note: Following online posting David Hare commented about his memories of the  Rajneesh  in Sydney.  I've now included thi...
Saturday, 20 April 2019

CINEMA REBORN - Short notes and links to the selection (5) - LUCKY TO BE A WOMAN (Alessandro Blasetti, Italy, 1954)

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Long before they became internationally famous, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni starred in a series of piquant, cheeky comedies tha...